Raisa Rashed Email and Phone Number

Finance | Strategic Finance & Business Partnering

Although my focus at GoZayaan was as a Product Development Intern, I simultaneously worked in their Talent & Culture function. Some of my responsibilities included:Product Development Responsibilities:- Facilitating the introduction and local integration of a foreign cloud-based hotel management system- Regressing sales on independent variables to find statistically significant factors for hotel product growth - Conducting secondary market research on barriers to hotel product growth and subsequent strategizing- Testing performance of ARIMA modeling on gross merchandise value trends to produce short-run forecasts- Processing and analyzing consumer behavior in addition to sales and market trends for proactive strategizing and retrospective insights Talent & Culture Responsibilities:- Designing employee language training, business communications, and workplace etiquette modules for workshops- Initiating line of communication with potential recruits, screening resumes and facilitating the recruitment process- Planning and organizing logistics for corporate events, coordinating with relevant vendors

- Designing and editing surveys and questionnaires- Interpreting and analyzing data collected at the national level- Consolidating findings to prepare reports for final presentations to clients- Creating report templates for regular clientele

- Creating, editing, and managing databases in Excel for advertisement contacts- Writing, editing, and pitching proposals to prospective clients- Designing initial advertisement placements for the newspaper website in collaboration with IT

- Contributing as a regular writer and editor for a weekly features publication and monthly magazine - Researching for and composing feature articles, including long-form articles, on a wide array of topics- Covering and facilitating events such as Dhaka Lit Fest, seminars, policy debates, and roundtable discussions- Developing strong interpersonal communication skills by regularly conducting interviews- Collaborating with iccdr,b to publish the special supplement Climate Tribune, which facilitated the dissemination of relevant climate crisis issues in BangladeshFind some examples of my work at https://archive.dhakatribune.com/author/khandaker-raisa-rashed

As a paid contributor, I continued my professional relationship with Dhaka Tribune while I completed my high school education. In this role, I would write lifestyle and entertainment pieces for their monthly magazine publication Avenue T.

As a summer intern for the Features Department at Dhaka Tribune, I had my first splash of exposure to creative journalism. With a central focus on composing lifestyle articles, this role involved sourcing pictures, covering events, copy editing, and designing layouts.